The Secret to Beating Alcoholism is with Creation

Alcohol addiction is a condition that disrupts every area of a person’s life. Drinking heavily affects the alcoholic more than just physically….they also suffer mentally, socially, spiritually, and so on. Their whole world is screwed up due to their addiction. Jobs are lost. Relationships are out of whack. People drop out of college, lose contact with old friends, and so on. In short, alcoholism affects everything.

In most of these cases, the disease is stripping things away, right out of a person’s life. Any sense of spirituality is stripped away and replaced by the booze. Whatever used to provide entertainment and genuine value for the alcoholic was eventually replaced with drinking. In short, drinking becomes the solution for everything, the remedy for any event in the alcoholic’s life. It becomes the spiritual savior and the emotional balance mechanism.

So when someone tries to stop drinking, the task at hand is so much more than just quitting drinking. The task at hand is to completely recreate the entire life that was once ruled by drinking. Not only this, but also in seeking out a new way to live that can give us purpose that the booze used to provide for us, such as by how we dealt with our emotions.

The key to doing this is in creation.

In normal recovery circles, such as in AA or NA, there is actually a push for creative growth. The alcoholic is encouraged to go through the steps in order to have a spiritual awakening and thus change their personality enough to overcome the problem of drink. This is a type of creation, but actually it is a bit narrow of a focus to really be effective. The reason for this is because the disease is more than just spiritual….It is also spiritual, physical, mental, and so on. Therefore the solution needs to be holistic in that it should address all of these areas, not just the spiritual.

So the answer for achieving sobriety is in making a purposeful life for yourself in these different areas. That is the holistic approach to recovery and when you follow it and attempt to grow in several areas then you will be involved in the act of creation. This then is the ultimate secret of overcoming alcohol addiction.